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boston.com - 1/18/2009
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boston.com —
The position of science adviser requires Senate confirmation.
John Holdren's nomination is likely to sail through, but...
conscientious senators might wish to ask him some questions.
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Questions for Obama's science guy
jeffjacoby.com - 1/19/2009
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jeffjacoby.com —
IN NOMINATING John Holdren to be director of
the Office of Science and Technology Policy -- the...
position known informally as White House science adviser -- President-elect Barack Obama has enlisted an undisputed Big Name among academic...
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Questions for Obama's science guy
foxnews.com - 1/24/2009
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foxnews.com —
Friday, January 23, 2009 Video of what some
speculate is a UFO flying over President Obama's inauguration...
has circulated over the Internet, The Sun has reported. The video shows an unknown object flying past the Washington Monument, as nearly two ...
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Video of 'UFO' at Inauguration Gets Internet Buzz - ...
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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
An amazing satellite image of yesterday's crowd. Marc explains: Geoeye, a commercial satellite company, took this image of Washington, D.C. during the inauguration. Notice the dark clumps on the mall; those are people, massed around the big Jumbotrons. The resolution has been resampled to a half-meter, which means that, if you had a big enough picture, you could identify objects that were a half meter across. ...
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The Moderate Voice —
Check it out: An incredible photograph from yesterday’s inauguration. Explanation here.
How Big Was the Crowd?
Pajamas Media —
... 125 hectares, or about 1.25 million square meters, and simple multiplication then tells us that if the whole mall was that crowded, that would be as many as 2.3 million people. Which is one hell of a crowd. Call that an upper bound — anyone who says it was more than 2.3 million is almost certainly wrong. Just for comparison, we’ve got the Obama inauguration, which was originally estimated at 2 million, and then revised down to about 850,000. Popular Science got GeoEye to take a satellite photo . Now, via Steve, we have a number reported by Barbara Espinosa from the “people ...
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